Michael Harris

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

No doubt in my mind that LLMs have trained on cautionary distopian SciFi and use that to output distopian AI reality. It's not sentience by a long shot, it's just a very dumb irony of where we are at right now.

Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran War was inevitable claimed the three most senior figures in the AI analytics firm which both provided the justification for US/Israeli strikes and profits from the conflict

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran

War was inevitable claimed the three most senior figures in the AI analytics firm, which both provided the justification for US/Israeli strikes and profits from the conflict

bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/p...

Around 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa made etchings on eggshells. There are hatches, grids, rotations, repetitions—signs that the artist had the final egg design in mind before starting the work!

archaeology.org/news/2026/03/04/ostrich-eggshell-etchings-analyzed/

this is a must read 🔥🔥

Just heard of another major British Palaeolithic site falling through the planning & protection net and being green-lit for development. That's 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & the erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺

Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive Abstract. This article considers the making of an archive of environmental activism through the life histories of 100 campaigners involved in environmental

This is a companion piece to Felix Driver, Barbara Brayshay and Toby Butler’s recent article 'Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive' which is available Open Access in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal.

Writing in the 12th century, the Persian polymath Omar Khayyám's writings were considered heretical in his time — but today Edward Fitzerland's 1859 translation is one of the most widely read poems in the English language. A testament to Iran's remarkable traditions of free inquiry and rationalism

A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition Some of the distinctiveness of Spain as we know it today comes as a legacy of the period from 700 to 1200, when most of it was under Muslim rule. The culture of Al-Andalus, as the Islamic states of mo...

A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition

Shattered dreams: Why the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre has turned into a political flashpoint Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools

Sunderland shouldn't lose an important cultural centre because the government won't fund universities properly.

If the University of Sunderland can't keep it open, then the community should get to decide what happens.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

For the first time, officials at the U.S. National Science Foundation have spoken publicly about how President Donald Trump is now calling the shots at the $9 billion research agency, with his administration reorienting it to focus on White House priorities. https://scim.ag/3Ow4Qap

Gaza’s cultural sites have been decimated. UNESCO’s muted response sets a dangerous precedent UNESCO has been far too cautious over Gaza. This allows the destruction of historical sites to be treated as regrettable collateral damage, instead of a crime.

it is far, far from the most important thing, but it is still an important thing. An article that came out earlier this month

theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

“I saw nothing, I did nothing wrong.”

Aye Bill, but that’s what you said about making a mess on a dress in the Oval Office.

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row Durham University says the action, which could last for six months, is

Workers are working to rule at Durham.

Edinburgh University taking strike action after plans for 1,800 job losses University of Edinburgh faces renewed UCU industrial action ballot over £140m funding cuts and up to 1,800 job losses, with union opposing…

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

‘Traditional values’ and ‘religious freedom’ used to erode human rights – Freedom of Thought Report Authoritarian governments are eroding the human rights of minority groups, including the non-religious, women, and LGBT+ people, under the guise of defending ‘traditional values’ and ‘religious freedo...

The latest Freedom of Thought report from @humanists.bsky.social is a valuable resource for any RE teachers teaching about freedom of religion or belief (which we hope you all are) humanists.uk/2026/02/26/t...

📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡
Throughout April, we'll spotlight:
🔹 Education and inclusion
🔹 Capacity building
🔹 Long-term sustainability of CS initiatives

Does your work align with these themes? Submit your contribution here:
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📅 Deadline: 20 March

We’re back! Bigger and better!! We’ve got TWO stages this year as the Shambles Forest expands with more incredible guests and shows at @latitudefestival.bsky.social this summer. And we’re bringing an astronaut this time!

Tickets at latitudefestival.co.uk

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin's Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform's Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the "inherent differences between groups" has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings

Found it: Debora Mackenzie and Andy Coghlan, “Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world,” New Scientist, October 19, 2011 www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...

Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Rain intensity has ALREADY increased by more than 20% after just 1.5°C of global heating - enough to cause the extensive, long lasting winter flooding we've seen. Imagine the effects of the 3°C and more that we face as climate deniers fight to slow our green transition.
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EDF pushes back Hinkley Point C start-up by another year Delays raise bill for flagship UK nuclear project to almost £49bn at today’s prices

The world is turning upside down with tariff wars and Epstein revelations

It’s reassuring to see normality in some places

Like the news that Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is going to be even more over time & over budget

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On Being a Historian in Dystopian Times by Katherine Blouin It is tempting to identify with Resistance and to say, “That is what I would have done.” Alas, we are far more likely to act, in parallel situations, like the Vichy majority. In…

This is an absolutely essential read by @isisnaucratis.bsky.social on the moral duties of the historian in the face of genocide everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

At least Senator Joe McCarthy made his false accusations in public:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq

Brazil’s growing water crisis Scientists warn Brazil is entering a hidden water crisis with global consequences.

Scientists warn Brazil is entering a hidden water crisis with global consequences.

Latest report from @monicapiccinini.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2026/feb/19/...

How Britain helped cover up a US-sponsored coup in Guatemala Declassified documents reveal how the UK helped cover up America’s role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected government

The US State Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) demanded that their British counterparts help cover up the US role in the coup, according to declassified files from the UK National Archives in Kew.

www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...